Everybody who is online gets hassled by an idiot at some point. I don’t know why, but I assumed Bob the Library Bear would be exempt from this universal law. I mean, how can you be mean to a teddy bear?

My Mum sent me home on Sunday with spring flowers from her garden in a plastic bucket. I own the grand total of one vase. it might be more accurate to say that I found one clean jam-jar in our recycling bin at the house-share and it became a vase full of bluebells, cowslips, and pink tulips.

This morning I tied the bucket with the rest of the blooms into my bike basket and cycled, slowly, to the library.

“Wow, those are gorgeous, Nina.”

Linda was in before me. Her work attendance improves dramatically once Boss Lady returns from her golf holidays.

“A...

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